I would love a post-apocalypse warographics. We just get a bunch of pamphlets and every post-nuclear tribe would have a bald bearded shaman that has to read the pamplet in a British accent.
In other news, the Memorial Bridge Water Gang has increased the price of passage from one bottle of dirty water to two purified ones. This has sparked outrage in all 13 surviving people within The Pitt. Mutant sightings have also increased dramatically, although critics of the danger posed by them state that "A big gun deals with them just fine". More at 9
Realistically all this was louder saber rattling. Oh no....they demonstrated that they have maintained their 1960s capability. North korea actively does more to threaten. Russia could be flying a bomber right on polands boarder with a nuke hanging out the doors of it....its still just a threat.
0:00 Russia Rattles the Nuclear Sabre 11:11 North Korea Enters the Ukraine War 21:26 G7 Approves Loans of Frozen Russian Money 32:09 Attack on Turkish Aerospace Firm
I seriously do not understand why the editors don’t do timestamps. You already have the titles and the edit mark for the said timestamp… like 2 more seconds but would make sooooo many people happier. I don’t get it. 😂
you guys have nailed the music. its been nice for a while now. I'm glad you took the time to do this instead of just removing it altogether. This is totally worth all the earlier craziness.
I agree, it's now much nicer to listen to on my phone. But... As one of the people that disliked the nervous background music, it distracted me from the narration, I dislike your characterization of our comments as "craziness". 😁😜 Let's keep the dialogue amongst Warfront viewers respectful.
@@tehhzombeh3244Bruh. People can have different opinions, sometimes stuff like music can distract, whether it’s the tone of the music, poor mixing where it’s too loud/the narration is too quiet, etc. I’m distracted if it gets much louder than it is here, but the type of music doesn’t bother me…unless it changes to Baby Shark the entire 40+ minutes or something 😅 This is nice though, serious without being overly dark or nervous sounding. Something that doesn’t play too much on strong emotions, but also makes it easier to listen to 45 minutes of the world falling apart.
Also super interesting that the FSB deploying a nerve agent on British soil, in a public place, wasn't a violation of sovereignty deserving a large serving of Trident IIs
I imagine post-apocalypse warographics as Simon talking from behind a empty monitor frame to a group of people, holding out a bowl at the end asking for 'subscriptions'
What is actually wrong with Putin? "Yes we are ready in case of a first strike" my brother in Christ, you are the only person threatening a strike of any kind
Putin's bullcrap is for domestic audiences. Russians think the type of rhetoric he talks is something that makes him and Russia by extension appear powerful.
@@Nemesis_69-i9l no shit lol, died for our sins allegedly, arose from the dead either symbolically or literally or something, think they wrote and revised a book ab it maybe
Putin is not a brother in Christ, my brother in Christ. He also isn't dumb enough to think that all the other nuclear powers will excuse him launching one for some bs reason without responding by deleting him and his country
If the United States of America were to be invaded by a foreign power, in such an aggressive way, such as what's happened in Ukraine, I genuinely feel the general tone and sentiment of what the response should be would be drastically different. Natural, of course, but the hypocrisy of my fellow countrymen is disheartening. If we were a fraction of the size economically, and militarily as say, China, and China were to invade, I'm sure we would be desperate for any help we could get; and discouraged and or angry about the lack of assistance some western civilians voice we should be giving. It doesn't stop with Ukraine., if the Kremlin does succeed in their war with them.
Wow really who could've guessed that , I don't care for Ukraine I live in Oklahoma why would I care about somewhere 3000 miles away while I have issues here ? Only privileged ppl can worry about these issues bcs they have nothing better to do
of course we would. we are Americans and in your scenario America would be under threat. it us up to us to look out for our interests. just as it is up to the Ukrainians to look out for theirs while they are under threat. that's not hypocrisy . that's actually fairness. for all people keep saying it. America and Ukraine are Explicitly NOT allies. We never became allies. they TRIED to join our alliance structure and we said NO precisely because we did not want this fight that is happening now to be ours. we are not obligated to look out for their interests. or even to care about them. and even if we were allies. we would only be obligated to do as much as whatever alliance treaty says we should do. EVERYTHING we have done for them thus far is charity. charity that I think benefits us... and that we should continue to do to be clear. I want Ukraine to win this war. I want Putin and Russia punished for their actions. I want this to resolve favorably for Ukraine... but that doesn't change the actual facts. we owe them nothing. they are not our ally. we have already done far more than we had to or should have. though clearly not as much as we could. And I do still want us to do more. WHEN we have been under attack by outside powers we HAVE been desperate for aid and angry when we didn't get it. as would anyone. but just because someone is desperate and angry. doesn't mean that anyone else owes them anything at all. much less everything. Ukraine should absolutely do whatever it can wherever it can to serve its own interests. 100% but if they want to use our tools. they need to abide by our rules. and it isn't in our interest to risk nuclear apocalypse to save a country that would also disappear in the nuclear fireball should we guess wrong. Ukraine may be more willing to take risks than we are. understandably. they have a lot more to lose if they don't and at the most extreme end don't lose much more than they would otherwise if they are wrong. but we have a lot to lose if they guess wrong... and very little to gain. so again. if they want our help. they use OUR standards. not theirs. if they want to go it alone they can do whatever the hell they please. now if we get to my personal policy preferences. I say that they should be able to hit anything that is used to harm them total war style and that I doubt Putin will rain nukes on countries they aren't actively fighting while the one they are fighting is right there to be hit. I don't think Putin wants to end the world. nor do I believe he would be willing to. but he might be willing to nuke Ukraine itself. again total war style. but I don't think that benefits him. nor do I think us encouraging Putin to go there benefits Ukraine either. however. if that is a risk Ukraine wants to take. then so be it is my outlook. But our leaders don't agree with me. they think Putin is willing to end the world. they thing Putin is willing to waste firepower on countries they aren't fighting. so their appetite for risk is understandably different than mine. and they are the ones with the secret knowledge and best spies. not me.
The problem with turkeys issue with the pkk is that Turkey labels every Kurd who desires an independent Kurdistan to be a pkk terrorist regardless of their actions or beliefs. So you have many Kurds who don't support violence of any kind but if given the chance to vote for independence they would do so and then Turkey thinks it's ok to kill them as terrorists
Simon’s bunker office has a basement ready to go with writers chained up cranking out scripts for a sip of clean water. And a radio transmitter so he can broadcast when there’s no internet.
@@Elliriusthat’s the problem with the world. Hitler thought he was making it better, Putin does, bush did. Ends always justify the means if you make the means big and holy enough when it comes to people like that. It always comes down to “I can make the world peaceful and prosperous and all I have to do is eradicate from existence (insert group here).”
Better and worse, right and wrong are subjective comparative words. And lack meaning without comparison. "Better then what? Wrong compared to what? Etc. Subjective concepts"
I watch Simon on several different channels and I can listen to him all day just about. Very much appreciate the writers too because it's very objective and filled with so many facts, with some great humor thrown in. Thank you guys for doing such a great job!
@@tsdocholiday8965 It was a general statement. There is bound to be information corruptions as people report things, like a game of telephone - misinformation. Simon can do his best and still relay kernels of knowledge that, while close to the truth, aren't the exact truth; we aren't on the ground in these situations. Disinformation would be if Simon Whistler was secretly writhing his hands offscreen saying, "mm, yes, how can I spin this to self-affirm my ideology."
@@samarboriahe’s still 100% more unbiased and authentic than the mainstream, independent media can have its drawbacks when it comes to verifying info but atleast he talks about both angles of conflicts and stories
Bubbleheads are a special bunch. I had a roommate when I was in the Navy, who was a Nuclear Machinist Mate on a ballistic missile sub. He and his Sonar Tech buddy actually had hours of recording of whale songs, and could identify the species and sex of every whale, just by their calls. They'd sit in the living room of our apartment for hours, with headphones on and notepads in their laps, taking and comparing notes, debating what kind of whale they were listening to, and what the calls meant. I'd sit there, playing MGS 2 or SOCOM, just listening to them go all aquanerd, enjoying every minute of their banter.
12:19 "Just imagine telling someone as recently as 2021 that P'yongyang has entered into a land war on the European continent, and that person might just think that a third world war was underway." Just imagine a World War 2 veteran hearing this news....
Simon, take care of your voice bruv. Id happily wait 2 or 3 wks for you to heal, instead of chugging on thru. Either way, thanks fr, you guys are keeping us more informed!
Perhaps the most worrisome part about all the global conflict currently, is most people are downplaying red lines, tit for tats are boiling over, so you have to imagine at some point as you suggested a red line will be crossed that can’t be undone. We are sleepwalking into major escalation.
If the average age of the Russian fighters wasn't hovering at 50 and the vast majority of their equipment wasn't refurbished out of emptying storage yards, it'd be worrisome, true. If Iran had a strong army and the support of its people, if NK equipment wasn't ancient and poorly maintained, if China had actually participated in any of this instead of just war profiteering and scoring political points but by and large doing its own thing, (which is the actual worrying part,) it'd be worrying. But as it is, there is no great escalation to have, so no, it's not particularly worrying.
@ Also consider the fact that Kim Jong Un ordered his own country’s military into Russia to either aid and advise Russians on their equipment, or directly fight. This is not a decision that’s made to “rattle sabers” with the west. It’s direct action to defeat a nato ally.
The thing is if red lines were extreme enough in this case china india and Brazil would have their own things to say about it. They also have their own nuclear stockpiles and they can also threaten Russia if they truly turned into a rogue state
Boy those next generation bombers and missiles (which if i were a betting man, I'd say still require a heavy amount of r&d) are gonna be expensive. Seems difficult for a nation with an absolutely baloonign defense budget to manage on the long term. Reminds me of a certain Soviet nation in the 80's.
Vladimir Putin draws red lines with all the credibility of Kamun-Ra trying to stop Ben Stiller's character from touching his magic tablet in the second Night at the Museum movie.
How's that? Ukrainians want to push into Russia dragging the entire world into the war. Ukraine says they need this or that to win the war but refuses to use the weapons given in the way they were designed to be used. They constantly ask, no demand more while ignoring the western nations strategies and tactics for blatantly obvious Russia military tactics. Both sides have miss used armored vehicles both sides have used mass waves, both sides have used artillery, bombs to attack civilian targets. Ukraine is just another Russia and doesn't deserve the West help.
0:00 Russian nuclear threats 11:13 North Korean troops in Ukraine war 21:26 G7 approves loans of frozen Russian money to Ukraine 32:10 Terror attack on Turkish aerospace firm by DKK
I imagine the DPRK is sending troops in as opportunity to give some of them some combat in order to learn and take it back. They don't have any combat experience.
I doubt any of those troops are making it back alive and won't be sharing their experiences with others. Only the advisors will be alive to report back to the DPRK and Kim Jon Fatty will just send more trips to the meat grinder for more money to support his bad habits and the lifestyles of the elites.
13:33 dear editor, music is distractingly loud at times. I normally wouldnt complain but this time it was particularly loud. I understand sometimes volumes can get wonky during the render, otherwise BRAVO
Fun Fact: A Russian Antonov 124 cargo plane was seized by the Canadian government after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They parked it next to a highway at Pearson international Airport near Toronto... As if it were on display, rubbing it in Russia's face for anyone coming in/out of Canada's busiest airport to see. We'd hate to see it go, but I think if anyone deserves a new cargo plane it's Zelensky.
I always enjoy watching your videos, including this one! In my opinion your production would greatly increase in quality if you started adding video chapter timestamps. Besides that keep up the excellent work! It was fascinating learning about the different Russian missile capabilities.
As old KGB ,Putin knows the only hard and fast rule of nuclear weapons. YOU CANNOT EVER USE THEM. You use one, for whatever reason, everybody freaks out and uses theirs. At which point bottle caps become coin of choice.
Saw some other video the other day that said in the event of nuclear war, 5 billion people would cease to exist in 72 minutes or less. Now that is depressing.
@MiarmudVon-v5z cuz it cost tens of millions annually, and Russia is struggling to buy body armor.. nobody is underestimating anyone. Stop putting words in my mouth..
This channel is getting better and better. The info provided is objective and succinct, but it seems to dive just a bit deeper than most other sources, which I especially appreciate. I love all your channels but this one is earning my deepest respect more and more each day. Great job!!!
I think it's just more posturing by Putin. Regardless of what he says or how he acts, he's not stupid. He knows full well that nuclear armegeddon isn't his or Russia's best interest. It doesn't really matter who has more nukes when we're talking thousands of missiles. Fact of the matter is, there are more countries pointing them at Russia than Russia could realistically handle. Russia's only strategic allies are NK, Iran, and China. NK is probably the only other country that potentially has the capability to fire nuclear weapons at US soil or it's allies and the stupidity required to do so, but they also have the smallest nuclear arsenal in the world and are much more concerned with South Korea, than the US mainland.
Im amazed that DPRK has the logistics to het their soldiers to the front...big stretch of land in between and last time i checked the Hermit Kingdom wasn't very invested in heavy air lift of other key logistics
Why isn’t the “western world “ doing something or at least talking about thinking about doing something like they usual do? Could the US election play a factor in it which basically cripples Europe .. why is there response?
9:13 "At some point there will be a line ... " There doesn't have to ever be a line. There are two possible nuclear strategies: nuclear deterrence and nuclear blackmail. In nuclear deterrence, you specify very few conditions (possibly only one) to which you would respond with nuclear omnicide, and you do whatever it takes to make a credible commitment to respond under those circumstances. In other words, you draw a red line. Any actual benefit you get from your nuclear arsenal takes place at lower levels of the hierarchy of threat. Your adversaries can't credibly threaten to make a nuclear first strike over something that's only moderately significant to them, because they know you would respond. So you can be more credible if you threaten to do that moderately-significant thing as a deterrent to something else, and the balance on that threat affects yet another level of less-significant things, grounding out in a difference on the issues you actually haggle over in day-to-day diplomacy. In nuclear blackmail, by contrast, you apply the threat of nuclear omnicide directly to whatever issue you're talking about that day. It's not very credible, but maybe you can convince your adversary that you might not be particularly attached to the idea of continuing to exist in a form other than radioactive vapor, and that you just might be that fanatical about the particular issue you're making the threat over, so that your adversary decides it's not worth the risk. In other words, you draw a fake red line, every time you feel like getting a little extra leverage on a quotidian issue. These two options are incompatible. The more fake lines you draw, the harder it is to credibly draw a real one. Putin has heavily committed to the second option. Switching to deterrence would be a wrenching change. As long as his current approach seems to be working, even a little, he probably won't switch. It is possible to keep on letting it work a little, and have Russia lose decisively. We have to keep hesitating just enough, and then doing just a little less than would actually be in our interests if each step were evaluated in isolation -- but still crossing the fake red lines eventually, and still doing enough to eventually bring Russia to the point where unconditional surrender looks like their least-bad option, followed by nuclear disarmament in exchange for a new Marshall Plan. It's certainly not easy. We probably won't. But it is possible.
Simon, I suggest you do a video about nuclear strategy and strategic equilibrium. Look into the ABM treaty and how ABMs complicate the question. Dr. James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment is a good source.
How viable would it be to sieze unofficial Russian assets? Not too long ago there was a video discussing the Russian shadow fleet. I'm assuming it's not possible for a variety of reasons but it would be interesting for governments to look into siezing the barely hidden assets that Russia has abroad.
Isn’t the ICBM on the mobile launcher 5:56 , the same as the one in the movie “Spies Like Us”? After all these years, it still looks great on screen. In the Post-Apocalyptic area of “content“, can we give Brain Blaze a simple RIP? It definitely doesn’t need a reboot. Really, it didn’t need to be booted to begin with. Hind sight…
Oh comon ...what exactly is that word at 16:30? "Who so ever wins?" or "Where sull wins"??? Nothing I can come up with matches the following sentence in meaning.
I would love a post-apocalypse warographics. We just get a bunch of pamphlets and every post-nuclear tribe would have a bald bearded shaman that has to read the pamplet in a British accent.
In other news, the Memorial Bridge Water Gang has increased the price of passage from one bottle of dirty water to two purified ones. This has sparked outrage in all 13 surviving people within The Pitt.
Mutant sightings have also increased dramatically, although critics of the danger posed by them state that "A big gun deals with them just fine". More at 9
@@iceicebabie When is 9
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@@Crowfist I forget. We don't have clocks anymore. Wait for the bright light above to go away, when the sky is dark
Apocographics
Simon the type of guy to kiss his alarm clock good night
Lol
Said the type of guy to use another man as his profile picture. 😵
Wtf😂😂😂
He the type that don't Wipe after taking a Shite
Not one but two alarm clocks.
"all missiles hit their intended targets" - as long as the ground was the intended target I would believe it.
Only if you mean the fragments of them that weren't vaporized by the mid-air explosions halfway there. Lol
Realistically all this was louder saber rattling. Oh no....they demonstrated that they have maintained their 1960s capability.
North korea actively does more to threaten. Russia could be flying a bomber right on polands boarder with a nuke hanging out the doors of it....its still just a threat.
@@seasonallyferal1439 I was actually surprised that the launches shown did actually make it off the pad. That in itself was an achievement.
@@seasonallyferal1439watching too much propaganda. Lots vdieos out there showing how useless are both Patriot and S400. Targets will get hit
The whole thing to me had the same energy as "We fully investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong."
0:00 Russia Rattles the Nuclear Sabre
11:11 North Korea Enters the Ukraine War
21:26 G7 Approves Loans of Frozen Russian Money
32:09 Attack on Turkish Aerospace Firm
Thank You 🎉
Thanks man
I seriously do not understand why the editors don’t do timestamps. You already have the titles and the edit mark for the said timestamp… like 2 more seconds but would make sooooo many people happier. I don’t get it. 😂
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you guys have nailed the music.
its been nice for a while now.
I'm glad you took the time to do this instead of just removing it altogether.
This is totally worth all the earlier craziness.
I agree, it's now much nicer to listen to on my phone. But... As one of the people that disliked the nervous background music, it distracted me from the narration, I dislike your characterization of our comments as "craziness". 😁😜 Let's keep the dialogue amongst Warfront viewers respectful.
What was wrong with it?
@@Jell0zzyou sound gay
@@Jell0zzYou sound crazy
@@tehhzombeh3244Bruh. People can have different opinions, sometimes stuff like music can distract, whether it’s the tone of the music, poor mixing where it’s too loud/the narration is too quiet, etc. I’m distracted if it gets much louder than it is here, but the type of music doesn’t bother me…unless it changes to Baby Shark the entire 40+ minutes or something 😅 This is nice though, serious without being overly dark or nervous sounding. Something that doesn’t play too much on strong emotions, but also makes it easier to listen to 45 minutes of the world falling apart.
That Red Dwarf reference sailed way over SOOOOO many heads!
Its been getting a bunch of play on youtube shorts recently, at least on my feed. The culture reference too haha
Right!! Loved it!! 😂
@@chrstfer2452 that spooky algorithm...
31:14 you call it theft. I call it a Special Banking Operation.
Top tier comment
Ahh I see what you did there 😅
Holy shit you win the internet today hahaha
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Also super interesting that the FSB deploying a nerve agent on British soil, in a public place, wasn't a violation of sovereignty deserving a large serving of Trident IIs
Who knew after they deployed a nuclear isotope in the murder of Ltvenenko.
Brits have no guts
Russia attacks dissedents in London ALL THE TIME its actually pretty crazy Britain seems to be a favorite of theirs
I imagine post-apocalypse warographics as Simon talking from behind a empty monitor frame to a group of people, holding out a bowl at the end asking for 'subscriptions'
I’d still give money. Probably worthless in a post-apocalyptic world anyway.
I'd also give some bottle caps
What is actually wrong with Putin? "Yes we are ready in case of a first strike" my brother in Christ, you are the only person threatening a strike of any kind
It's all Russia has left to threaten the west.
Putin's bullcrap is for domestic audiences. Russians think the type of rhetoric he talks is something that makes him and Russia by extension appear powerful.
@@Nemesis_69-i9lhow edgy
@@Nemesis_69-i9l no shit lol, died for our sins allegedly, arose from the dead either symbolically or literally or something, think they wrote and revised a book ab it maybe
Putin is not a brother in Christ, my brother in Christ. He also isn't dumb enough to think that all the other nuclear powers will excuse him launching one for some bs reason without responding by deleting him and his country
38:51 "Immortals Battalion"
Somewhere in the afterlife, Xerxes is smiling and Leonidas is laughing his arse off.
If the United States of America were to be invaded by a foreign power, in such an aggressive way, such as what's happened in Ukraine, I genuinely feel the general tone and sentiment of what the response should be would be drastically different. Natural, of course, but the hypocrisy of my fellow countrymen is disheartening.
If we were a fraction of the size economically, and militarily as say, China, and China were to invade, I'm sure we would be desperate for any help we could get; and discouraged and or angry about the lack of assistance some western civilians voice we should be giving.
It doesn't stop with Ukraine., if the Kremlin does succeed in their war with them.
Wow really who could've guessed that , I don't care for Ukraine I live in Oklahoma why would I care about somewhere 3000 miles away while I have issues here ? Only privileged ppl can worry about these issues bcs they have nothing better to do
of course we would. we are Americans and in your scenario America would be under threat. it us up to us to look out for our interests. just as it is up to the Ukrainians to look out for theirs while they are under threat. that's not hypocrisy . that's actually fairness. for all people keep saying it. America and Ukraine are Explicitly NOT allies. We never became allies. they TRIED to join our alliance structure and we said NO precisely because we did not want this fight that is happening now to be ours. we are not obligated to look out for their interests. or even to care about them. and even if we were allies. we would only be obligated to do as much as whatever alliance treaty says we should do. EVERYTHING we have done for them thus far is charity. charity that I think benefits us... and that we should continue to do to be clear. I want Ukraine to win this war. I want Putin and Russia punished for their actions. I want this to resolve favorably for Ukraine... but that doesn't change the actual facts. we owe them nothing. they are not our ally. we have already done far more than we had to or should have. though clearly not as much as we could. And I do still want us to do more.
WHEN we have been under attack by outside powers we HAVE been desperate for aid and angry when we didn't get it. as would anyone. but just because someone is desperate and angry. doesn't mean that anyone else owes them anything at all. much less everything.
Ukraine should absolutely do whatever it can wherever it can to serve its own interests. 100% but if they want to use our tools. they need to abide by our rules. and it isn't in our interest to risk nuclear apocalypse to save a country that would also disappear in the nuclear fireball should we guess wrong. Ukraine may be more willing to take risks than we are. understandably. they have a lot more to lose if they don't and at the most extreme end don't lose much more than they would otherwise if they are wrong. but we have a lot to lose if they guess wrong... and very little to gain. so again. if they want our help. they use OUR standards. not theirs. if they want to go it alone they can do whatever the hell they please.
now if we get to my personal policy preferences. I say that they should be able to hit anything that is used to harm them total war style and that I doubt Putin will rain nukes on countries they aren't actively fighting while the one they are fighting is right there to be hit. I don't think Putin wants to end the world. nor do I believe he would be willing to. but he might be willing to nuke Ukraine itself. again total war style. but I don't think that benefits him. nor do I think us encouraging Putin to go there benefits Ukraine either. however. if that is a risk Ukraine wants to take. then so be it is my outlook. But our leaders don't agree with me. they think Putin is willing to end the world. they thing Putin is willing to waste firepower on countries they aren't fighting. so their appetite for risk is understandably different than mine. and they are the ones with the secret knowledge and best spies. not me.
Ukraine has a foreign legion. You should sign up since you feel so disheartened.
Yes it does
@@ube187nah, we have thousands of missiles we built just for Russia. We should give them a taste of how an actual modern military operates.
The problem with turkeys issue with the pkk is that Turkey labels every Kurd who desires an independent Kurdistan to be a pkk terrorist regardless of their actions or beliefs. So you have many Kurds who don't support violence of any kind but if given the chance to vote for independence they would do so and then Turkey thinks it's ok to kill them as terrorists
Turkey has been dealing with minorities like this for many years, look up their treatment of Armenians also.
Simon sounds like the type of guy that would set an alarm during a nuclear war and still go to work
Simon’s bunker office has a basement ready to go with writers chained up cranking out scripts for a sip of clean water. And a radio transmitter so he can broadcast when there’s no internet.
Putin makes nuclear threats every time his roll of toilet paper runs empty.
Ok that’s super funny.
That super funny 😆
Which you’d think would be more often considering how full of shit he is
"in case of a first strike" dude, you are the only person threatening a first strike 🗿
Seems like Putin ran out of rolls of toilet paper loooong time ago....that is why he is so full of 💩💩💩💩💩
Imagine if Putin spent all his time and energy trying to make the world better instead of worse.
In his ducked up head that's exactly what he is doing 😂
@@Elliriusthat’s the problem with the world. Hitler thought he was making it better, Putin does, bush did. Ends always justify the means if you make the means big and holy enough when it comes to people like that. It always comes down to
“I can make the world peaceful and prosperous and all I have to do is eradicate from existence (insert group here).”
Our politicians need to hear that more
Could be said same for NATO alliance
Better and worse, right and wrong are subjective comparative words. And lack meaning without comparison. "Better then what? Wrong compared to what? Etc. Subjective concepts"
I watch Simon on several different channels and I can listen to him all day just about. Very much appreciate the writers too because it's very objective and filled with so many facts, with some great humor thrown in. Thank you guys for doing such a great job!
On some channels you see misinformation occasionally. Not on purpose I think just double check sometimes if you get a lot of info from here.
I would listen to him read a phone book. The dulcet tones of his voice are soothing
@@puffpuffpass3214what misinformation?
@@tsdocholiday8965 It was a general statement. There is bound to be information corruptions as people report things, like a game of telephone - misinformation. Simon can do his best and still relay kernels of knowledge that, while close to the truth, aren't the exact truth; we aren't on the ground in these situations.
Disinformation would be if Simon Whistler was secretly writhing his hands offscreen saying, "mm, yes, how can I spin this to self-affirm my ideology."
@@samarboriahe’s still 100% more unbiased and authentic than the mainstream, independent media can have its drawbacks when it comes to verifying info but atleast he talks about both angles of conflicts and stories
The happiest dudes in the US navy were the SSN squids gathering even more data on the acoustic signatures of russian SSBMs
Squids are definitely regarded as acoustic.
Bubbleheads are a special bunch. I had a roommate when I was in the Navy, who was a Nuclear Machinist Mate on a ballistic missile sub. He and his Sonar Tech buddy actually had hours of recording of whale songs, and could identify the species and sex of every whale, just by their calls. They'd sit in the living room of our apartment for hours, with headphones on and notepads in their laps, taking and comparing notes, debating what kind of whale they were listening to, and what the calls meant. I'd sit there, playing MGS 2 or SOCOM, just listening to them go all aquanerd, enjoying every minute of their banter.
I would definitely use my energy ration to subscribe to the post-apocalyptic Situation Room. Great video!
12:19 "Just imagine telling someone as recently as 2021 that P'yongyang has entered into a land war on the European continent, and that person might just think that a third world war was underway."
Just imagine a World War 2 veteran hearing this news....
Only a handful left, but there are still ww2 veterans out there who are witnessing this
@0El_Presidente0 And you can wager they're seeing the warning signs.
So basically, Russia is now admitting they can't defend themselves without the use of nukes.
Could USA defend against Japan before drop Nuclear bomb?
@@nephalynzityes and did so for the most part.
Yup
@@nephalynzitAsk Tokyo.
@@nephalynzit if you understood why the bombs were used, you wouldnt comment this
Putin: "We wont engage in another nuclear arms race!"
Also Putin: Engages in nuclear arms race type activity.
0:17 can’t wait to tune into the new series “the Bunker Command Room”
Simon, take care of your voice bruv.
Id happily wait 2 or 3 wks for you to heal, instead of chugging on thru.
Either way, thanks fr, you guys are keeping us more informed!
I thought it was a sinus infection lmao
Hey Simon.I want to thank you for Ur consistent video you produce.They help me calm down after a long day.THANK YOU ONCES AGAIN❤️🇰🇪
Can’t get enough of Simon
@ Ahah yes I know! I follow mainly Biographics (how I found him in the first place), Side Projects, this one, and Megaprojects
@KihvaOMG yes 😂😂😂
Perhaps the most worrisome part about all the global conflict currently, is most people are downplaying red lines, tit for tats are boiling over, so you have to imagine at some point as you suggested a red line will be crossed that can’t be undone. We are sleepwalking into major escalation.
Swapping tits for tats is a red line no woman wants to cross unless she gets a call from the oncologist...
If the average age of the Russian fighters wasn't hovering at 50 and the vast majority of their equipment wasn't refurbished out of emptying storage yards, it'd be worrisome, true. If Iran had a strong army and the support of its people, if NK equipment wasn't ancient and poorly maintained, if China had actually participated in any of this instead of just war profiteering and scoring political points but by and large doing its own thing, (which is the actual worrying part,) it'd be worrying.
But as it is, there is no great escalation to have, so no, it's not particularly worrying.
@ Also consider the fact that Kim Jong Un ordered his own country’s military into Russia to either aid and advise Russians on their equipment, or directly fight. This is not a decision that’s made to “rattle sabers” with the west. It’s direct action to defeat a nato ally.
The thing is if red lines were extreme enough in this case china india and Brazil would have their own things to say about it. They also have their own nuclear stockpiles and they can also threaten Russia if they truly turned into a rogue state
Problem is that Russian red lines are so ridiculous and full of double standards.
Boy those next generation bombers and missiles (which if i were a betting man, I'd say still require a heavy amount of r&d) are gonna be expensive. Seems difficult for a nation with an absolutely baloonign defense budget to manage on the long term. Reminds me of a certain Soviet nation in the 80's.
Putin just told a press conference the T-90 was the best tank in the world, so what he says is absurd.
@@zulubeatz1 ah, so they are not even pretending the T-14 Armata is real anymore i seen xp
Red Dwarf mentioned, beer's on me lads
I wonder where a White Dwarf reference would make sense?
Imperatoris Protegit
I'll take a smoked kipper, Sir.
Ukraine immigration suddenly getting 12,000 North Korean Defectors
Vladimir Putin draws red lines with all the credibility of Kamun-Ra trying to stop Ben Stiller's character from touching his magic tablet in the second Night at the Museum movie.
or david the clearly evil android from prometheus being told not to touch stuff
21:09 is the equivalent of “I’ll do something so bad, that I don’t even know what it is yet”
Simon is safe in his nuclear bunker. His handlers keep him there just in case.
Where are you ? Safe in your Moscow apartment ?
@@zulubeatz1 An undisclosed location containing Simon Whistler.
comparisons to the crew of the Red Dwarf is too cool. Love it!
Wait was that reference to Iain M Banks " The Culture"!?
A lot of people would have missed the Iain M Banks reference in there. But it's good to see Simon's writers have good taste in books.
29:38 a video on how 50 billion gets turned into war/economic aid would be wonderful!
Love the Ian M. Banks reference. The culture series is awesome
Love the new out to style. Was super sleek
Simon the type of guy to do the worm first thing in the morning
The world leaving Ukraine hanging on like this is short-sighted and perplexing at best
How's that? Ukrainians want to push into Russia dragging the entire world into the war. Ukraine says they need this or that to win the war but refuses to use the weapons given in the way they were designed to be used. They constantly ask, no demand more while ignoring the western nations strategies and tactics for blatantly obvious Russia military tactics. Both sides have miss used armored vehicles both sides have used mass waves, both sides have used artillery, bombs to attack civilian targets.
Ukraine is just another Russia and doesn't deserve the West help.
0:00 Russian nuclear threats
11:13 North Korean troops in Ukraine war
21:26 G7 approves loans of frozen Russian money to Ukraine
32:10 Terror attack on Turkish aerospace firm by DKK
Great work Team!
I imagine the DPRK is sending troops in as opportunity to give some of them some combat in order to learn and take it back. They don't have any combat experience.
I doubt any of those troops are making it back alive and won't be sharing their experiences with others. Only the advisors will be alive to report back to the DPRK and Kim Jon Fatty will just send more trips to the meat grinder for more money to support his bad habits and the lifestyles of the elites.
They will not make it back
SK is getting good intel on NK soldiers capabilities.
13:33 dear editor, music is distractingly loud at times. I normally wouldnt complain but this time it was particularly loud. I understand sometimes volumes can get wonky during the render, otherwise BRAVO
Fun Fact: A Russian Antonov 124 cargo plane was seized by the Canadian government after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They parked it next to a highway at Pearson international Airport near Toronto... As if it were on display, rubbing it in Russia's face for anyone coming in/out of Canada's busiest airport to see. We'd hate to see it go, but I think if anyone deserves a new cargo plane it's Zelensky.
Russia cries wolf ....daily
You’d think Putin’s arms would be getting tired from all the nuclear saber-rattling he does.
i imagine its one of those cheap sabers where the blade isnt screwed in fully causing it to rattle when swung about
"I am big strong Russian man, rattling saber only make arm stronger!"
I always enjoy watching your videos, including this one! In my opinion your production would greatly increase in quality if you started adding video chapter timestamps. Besides that keep up the excellent work! It was fascinating learning about the different Russian missile capabilities.
The last segment on Turkey was especially intersting.
Bravo on the Red Dwarf reference!
As old KGB ,Putin knows the only hard and fast rule of nuclear weapons. YOU CANNOT EVER USE THEM. You use one, for whatever reason, everybody freaks out and uses theirs. At which point bottle caps become coin of choice.
I Love he made a Red Dwarf reference. Boy from the Dwarf.
I wonder where a White Dwarf reference would make sense.
Imperatoris Protegit
Where's my rogue servitors at?
@vasheroo what??
@@vasheroo If they were up your fourth point of contact like a Termagaunt, you'd know
Thank you Simon, very cool!
Great stuff. Thanks Simon.
A Veteran
Saw some other video the other day that said in the event of nuclear war, 5 billion people would cease to exist in 72 minutes or less. Now that is depressing.
11:13 what about their threat to invade Ukraine?
Simon is prodigious
19:38 black ops 2 was our training
Sounds like orc mischief to me...🤨 -Treebeard
Sorry to say but towards the end of the vudeo it sounded like Simon was struggling with his voice? Hope you are ok Simon, its ok to have a day off 💪🏻
Simon look absolutely fancy. Love your channels ♥️ and loving this one already
25:40 is the background music from the Elite Dangerous soundtrack? If not, it had to be a heavy influence.
cmdr?
@samarboria O7
Does Putin not know that the USA has nukes as well as Russia?
0:00 - Chapter 1 - Russia rattles the nuclear sabre...again
11:15 - Chapter 2 - North Korea enters the ukraine war
21:25 - Chapter 3 - G7 approves loans of frozen russian money
32:10 - Chapter 4 - Attack on turkish aerospace firm
nobody ever doubted Russias ability to launch a missile..
but we all doubt their ability to maintain fissionable material and triggering mechanisms..
@MiarmudVon-v5z cuz it cost tens of millions annually, and Russia is struggling to buy body armor.. nobody is underestimating anyone. Stop putting words in my mouth..
@MiarmudVon-v5z Bot sighted
Well, I'll worry about Russia's nuclear sabre when they manages to test a nuclear warhead again.
Your glasses look like they are melting! :)
@3:47 from land, sea, and........ water??? 😂
Russia has some weird views on the rest of the world.
Its like the people who, when threatened with a fist fight , they threaten to shoot you.
This channel is getting better and better. The info provided is objective and succinct, but it seems to dive just a bit deeper than most other sources, which I especially appreciate. I love all your channels but this one is earning my deepest respect more and more each day. Great job!!!
I think it's just more posturing by Putin.
Regardless of what he says or how he acts, he's not stupid. He knows full well that nuclear armegeddon isn't his or Russia's best interest.
It doesn't really matter who has more nukes when we're talking thousands of missiles. Fact of the matter is, there are more countries pointing them at Russia than Russia could realistically handle. Russia's only strategic allies are NK, Iran, and China. NK is probably the only other country that potentially has the capability to fire nuclear weapons at US soil or it's allies and the stupidity required to do so, but they also have the smallest nuclear arsenal in the world and are much more concerned with South Korea, than the US mainland.
23:30 instant reparations. Wow. What a time we live in
28:06 That's a gorgeous table right there
I wonder how many of those missiles detonated on launch
This man referenced Iain M. Banks book series and Red Dwarf in one sentance, I tip my hat to a fellow nerdlord.
Definitely the writer not Simon I doubt Simon had, any idea what he was saying.
Im amazed that DPRK has the logistics to het their soldiers to the front...big stretch of land in between and last time i checked the Hermit Kingdom wasn't very invested in heavy air lift of other key logistics
Nice culture reference, bit of a deep cut but i appreciated it
Putin: hey guys, here is a fresh nothing burger!
For all his talk about his big missiles, he exudes the same tiny missile energy that Cheetolini gives off.
Why isn’t the “western world “ doing something or at least talking about thinking about doing something like they usual do?
Could the US election play a factor in it which basically cripples Europe .. why is there response?
In the pockets of oligarchs that money will definitely make a difference.😂😂😂
9:13 "At some point there will be a line ... "
There doesn't have to ever be a line.
There are two possible nuclear strategies: nuclear deterrence and nuclear blackmail. In nuclear deterrence, you specify very few conditions (possibly only one) to which you would respond with nuclear omnicide, and you do whatever it takes to make a credible commitment to respond under those circumstances. In other words, you draw a red line. Any actual benefit you get from your nuclear arsenal takes place at lower levels of the hierarchy of threat. Your adversaries can't credibly threaten to make a nuclear first strike over something that's only moderately significant to them, because they know you would respond. So you can be more credible if you threaten to do that moderately-significant thing as a deterrent to something else, and the balance on that threat affects yet another level of less-significant things, grounding out in a difference on the issues you actually haggle over in day-to-day diplomacy.
In nuclear blackmail, by contrast, you apply the threat of nuclear omnicide directly to whatever issue you're talking about that day. It's not very credible, but maybe you can convince your adversary that you might not be particularly attached to the idea of continuing to exist in a form other than radioactive vapor, and that you just might be that fanatical about the particular issue you're making the threat over, so that your adversary decides it's not worth the risk. In other words, you draw a fake red line, every time you feel like getting a little extra leverage on a quotidian issue.
These two options are incompatible. The more fake lines you draw, the harder it is to credibly draw a real one. Putin has heavily committed to the second option. Switching to deterrence would be a wrenching change. As long as his current approach seems to be working, even a little, he probably won't switch. It is possible to keep on letting it work a little, and have Russia lose decisively. We have to keep hesitating just enough, and then doing just a little less than would actually be in our interests if each step were evaluated in isolation -- but still crossing the fake red lines eventually, and still doing enough to eventually bring Russia to the point where unconditional surrender looks like their least-bad option, followed by nuclear disarmament in exchange for a new Marshall Plan. It's certainly not easy. We probably won't. But it is possible.
Is there something in the air? Water? People are acting crazy.
So many people in different countries maybe need a snickers.
Imagine Simone only having only one channel !!!!
I wouldn’t even think about it if I were Putin
We've been roastin' their military armament for so long, they had to convince themselves that the stuff still works
20:06 chills
*inhales sharply*
Simon, I suggest you do a video about nuclear strategy and strategic equilibrium. Look into the ABM treaty and how ABMs complicate the question. Dr. James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment is a good source.
How viable would it be to sieze unofficial Russian assets?
Not too long ago there was a video discussing the Russian shadow fleet. I'm assuming it's not possible for a variety of reasons but it would be interesting for governments to look into siezing the barely hidden assets that Russia has abroad.
Culture reference for the win lets gooo❤🎉
Just surprised the things actually got off the ground.
Begging for help!!! Where have we seen that before 🤔
took me way toooooo long to realize that War Fronts wasn't a knock off of WarOgraphics
How many channels do you have now, fact boy?
It’s kinda cringe honestly. Like smells of desperation
When I can't sleep, I just start counting ruzzian red lines and fall asleep immediately 😂
Isn’t the ICBM on the mobile launcher 5:56 , the same as the one in the movie “Spies Like Us”? After all these years, it still looks great on screen.
In the Post-Apocalyptic area of “content“, can we give Brain Blaze a simple RIP? It definitely doesn’t need a reboot. Really, it didn’t need to be booted to begin with. Hind sight…
Get well soon simon
Oh comon ...what exactly is that word at 16:30? "Who so ever wins?" or "Where sull wins"???
Nothing I can come up with matches the following sentence in meaning.